Of course, we used to have it rough; we used to have to call the Internet through a 56k modem, download 3MB .mp3s from WinMX, burn them to CDs and play them on a boombox just to listen to music.
You try to tell the youth of today that and they’ll never believe you.
Haha I started on computers really young, so I got to experience a lot of the early 2000’s era internet.
I forgot about eDonkey, sharing forums are another, used to frequent astalavista forums lol.
You’re right about torrents though in general, really changed the sharing game.
I remember Firefox 2 having TABS, instead of a bunch of IE or Netscape windows lmao.
Trying to play warcraft 3 custom maps and getting booted from games because of dialup making the map download take forever (or a phone call mid-game causing me to lag out and get kicked).
I didn’t get cable/dsl until my parents divorced around 2008, I remember sitting in the corner of our empty house (they had to short sell it during the housing crisis and my mom took most of the furniture when she moved out) trying to connect to my neighbor friend’s wifi (that I had flashed ddwrt on lmao) with this windows 95 laptop I managed to flash Linux mint onto to make it usable just to watch some anime.
I remember Firefox 2 having TABS, instead of a bunch of IE or Netscape windows lmao.
The good ole days when tabs were mindblowing innovations. They hardly used any gigadatacenters to function (just most of my sweet, sweet 32MBs of RAM and only someone looking to meet the BSOD would dare open 3).
Trying to play warcraft 3 custom maps and getting booted from games because of dialup making the map download take forever (or a phone call mid-game causing me to lag out and get kicked).
I remember that period, if you tried to join a DotA map after an update and you didn’t pre-download it from the website you were never going to finish downloading before you were booted… and this was before MOBAs were toxic!
This must be true, I never even heard of software vulnerabilities before AI and Windows was beloved by all without any problems whatsoever.
Of course, we used to have it rough; we used to have to call the Internet through a 56k modem, download 3MB .mp3s from WinMX, burn them to CDs and play them on a boombox just to listen to music.
You try to tell the youth of today that and they’ll never believe you.
I’m not old! I’m still in my 30s 🥲
Yet I too did all of the above except winmx, I used limewire lol
I’ve got a decade on you then 👴
There were so many back them, Limewire, Napster, eDonkey, gnutella and the old old school IRC+FTP servers.
Then bittorrent came out and blew everything away, Suprnova was the OG Pirate Bay.
Haha I started on computers really young, so I got to experience a lot of the early 2000’s era internet.
I forgot about eDonkey, sharing forums are another, used to frequent astalavista forums lol.
You’re right about torrents though in general, really changed the sharing game.
I remember Firefox 2 having TABS, instead of a bunch of IE or Netscape windows lmao.
Trying to play warcraft 3 custom maps and getting booted from games because of dialup making the map download take forever (or a phone call mid-game causing me to lag out and get kicked).
I didn’t get cable/dsl until my parents divorced around 2008, I remember sitting in the corner of our empty house (they had to short sell it during the housing crisis and my mom took most of the furniture when she moved out) trying to connect to my neighbor friend’s wifi (that I had flashed ddwrt on lmao) with this windows 95 laptop I managed to flash Linux mint onto to make it usable just to watch some anime.
Fun times.
The good ole days when tabs were mindblowing innovations. They hardly used any gigadatacenters to function (just most of my sweet, sweet 32MBs of RAM and only someone looking to meet the BSOD would dare open 3).
I remember that period, if you tried to join a DotA map after an update and you didn’t pre-download it from the website you were never going to finish downloading before you were booted… and this was before MOBAs were toxic!